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Planning a Christmas Party

Father Knows Best · December 13, 1951 · 29 min · 4,055 words

The transcript of “Planning a Christmas Party”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast December 13, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Father Knows Best plays Father Knows Best free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Mother, is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole world? Well, your father says so, and your father knows best. Yes, if father knows best, transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half hour visit with your neighbors the Anderson's.

Brought to you by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of coffee at any price. Maxwell House, always good. to the last drop. In the year 1867, a man named Christopher Scholl sat down at a typewriter in Milwaukee and pecked out that immortal sentence, now is the time for all good man to come to the aid of the party.

Naturally, he wasn't thinking of Springfield at the time, but if ever a party needed being come to the aid of, it's the Christmas-Brannigan being arranged for the country club by the Andesans and their friends.

And if you've never heard a whelkin ring, you ought to hear what's going on in the living room of the white frame house on Maple Street. As a matter of fact, you can. Like this.

She's only a bird in a gilded cage. Mmm. A beautiful sight to see. Mmm. May think she's happy and free. But from care. But. Mmm. Hey, but wait a minute, fellas. Now what's the matter?

Well, how come you get to sing all the words? Well, that's the way you're supposed to do it. Who said so? My father said so. You mean all we're ever gonna get to sing is...

Mmm. Ah, let him sing it, John. What's the difference? Oh, we don't have to remember so much. I wanna sing more than... Mmm. It's monotonous. But that's how they do it on the Jack Benny program.

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